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Their Hands Upon the Ropes: A Look at E.M Forster’s “Howards End”
Within the first twenty-eight chapters of the novel, Howards End, by E.M.Forster, the author employs six variations of the idiomatic expression “hands upon the ropes” in connection with the two...
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Class Versus Crass: A Comparison of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and “The...
The film, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was produced in nineteen thirty-nine and was directed by Frank Capra. When released a few weeks after the German invasion of Poland, it came as a who-needs-it-now...
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Warren Beatty’s Bulworth: A Trial Balloon for the 2000 Presidential Nomination
Warren Beatty is a successful actor, director and producer. In addition to the entertainment industry, he has been publicly involved in liberal and democratic causes for the greater part of his life....
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Fire in the Flint
Walter White’s novel, Fire in the Flint was originally published in 1924. While White hoped “that sales of the book would show white publishers that colored people would buy books if publishers dared...
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On Shakespeare’s “Sonnet CXVI”
With Sonnet CXVI, William Shakespeare refuses to admit that anything can change or stand in the way of true love. The setting of this sonnet gives the impression that the poet has been engaged in a...
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Gender Wars
“Although the official ideology and the government support liberty and equality, men and women do not share an equal status in the United States.” In order to respond to the statement that “although...
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Dr. Gert and the Golden Rule
Originally posted on the Florida Student Philosophy Blog I wanted to share a few difficulties that I encountered while examining a reductio ad absurdum of the Golden Rule that is part of the article...
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Immoral Sinners: A response to Susan Wolf’s “Moral Saints”
Originally published in the Florida Student Philosophy Blog Reading Susan Wolf’s paper, Moral Saints,[i] there seems to be a prevailing attitude of hostility towards those who would seek to be such....
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Contract Law and the U.S. Constitution
Originally published in the Florida Student Philosophy Blog From a popular tutorial on contract management, we may learn the following: “A contract is…a formal written agreement between two individuals...
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Suicide and Sisyphus
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, Bill Shakespeare “Males take...
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Dr. Dale Jamieson on ‘The Moral and Political Challenges of Climate Change’
Originally posted on the Florida Student Philosophy Blog On Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 I attended a lecture by Dr. Dale Jamieson, director of environmental studies at New York University, on “The Moral...
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Toward a Clearer Understanding of Universal Human Rights
Originally posted on the Florida Student Philosophy Blog It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern...
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Property Rights and Environmental Public Policy
Originally posted on the Florida Student Philosophy Blog Indeed, the principal reason why, in the first place, states and cities were ever organized at all was to defend private property. – Cicero 1 In...
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The Elenchus and Socrates’ Idea of the Philosophical Life
Originally published on the Florida Student Philosophy Blog Pa’ntes A’nthropoi Tou^ Eide’nai Ore’gontai Phy’sei. All men by nature desire to know. —Aristotle, Metaphysics, 1:1 When one begins to take a...
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Nietzsche’s Conclusion
Originally Published on the Florida Student Philosophy Blog Zu bald alt, zu spät klug I was a child in the sixties, aged six to sixteen, during a time when existentialism was highly celebrated as pop...
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On Simon Blackburn’s “Lust”
Originally published on the Florida Student Philosophy Blog Perhaps those who love Shakespeare love him because of his ability to so skillfully portray the many facets of the human condition. He does...
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Gun Control & the Right to Bear Arms
“Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.” – Niccolo Machiavelli The question of whether citizens in a democracy should have ready access to firearms suggests a...
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Comparisons and Contrasts of the Contemporary Marriage Relationship among...
Originally published on the Florida Student Philosophy Blog Whosoever spends his days without a wife, has no joy nor blessing, or good in his life. Talmud – Yevamot 62B The Orthodox Jewish view of...
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On Rebellion
Originally published on the Florida Student Philosophy Blog “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”[1] These are the words of Howard Beale in “Network”. The American movie classic...
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Understanding Being and Time
Originally published in the Florida Student Philosophy Blog The newborn just entered into the world, may say to herself, “I am soiled; I am hungry, and decidedly uncomfortable. Surely, my mother knows...
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